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Jambi`s coal exports up to $31.39 mln

Jambi (ANTARA News - Jambi province`s coal exports in the first two months of 2012 jumped 64.25 percent to US$31.39 ...

Farmers, fishermen rally to oppose thermal power plant construction

Tens of farmers and fishermen in Batang district, Central Java, demonstrated on Monday against a plan to build a ...

Indonesia, New Zealand agree to increase economic relations

Indonesia and New Zealand have agreed to increase their economic relations, which are still considered quite low. ...

Dahlan challenges students to create agricultural machine

State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan has challenged Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) students to come up with ...

Govt to create rice fields amid food scarcity threat

The government plans to create rice fields on 100 thousand hectares of land this year in anticipation of the threat of ...

Potter actor jailed for his part in London riots

A London court on Tuesday sentenced a star of the Harry Potter films to two years in prison after he earlier admitted ...

RI potentially become rice exporter: farmers

The gvernment needs to be more selective in its policies on farm seeds in order to make Indonesia a world rice ...

W Sulawesi governor promises to build cacao fertilizer plant

West Sulawesi Governor Anwar Adnan Saleh (AAS) promised the farmers in his area to build a cacao fertilizer plant not ...

Rice fields need better infrastructures

Indonesia needs to develop its dams and irrigation to overcome desolation during droughts so that the country`s 7.5 ...

RI govt to speed up paddy planting amid drought

In spite of the drought, the government is ready to begin paddy planting this month, in an effort to cover this year`s ...

Mt Marapi again spews volcanic ash

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra again spewed volcanic ash falling on Padangpanjang city Tuesday. The 2,891-meter ...

One dead as elephants run amok in India city

Two wild elephants trampled one person to death in a three-hour rampage in the southern Indian city of Mysore early ...

Greenland cold snap linked to Viking disappearance

A cold snap in Greenland in the 12th century may help explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island, scientists ...

RI's 2012 economic growth projected highest in ASEAN

Indonesia`s economic growth in 2012 is predicted to be higher than those of other ASEAN countries, Finance Minister ...

Costa Rica police seize over a ton of cocaine in 9 days

Costa Rican police seized 178 kilograms (392 pounds) of cocaine near the Pacific coast, bringing to over a ton the ...